Unwritten Afro-Iberian Memories and Histories - Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Portugal and Spain

This book sketches out an innovative Afro-Iberian mosaic that puts forgotten memories and histories into circulation, constructing an Afro-Iberian past that is critical of the cultural racialization of Spaniards and Portuguese. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

List of contents

Introduction - Unwritten Afro-Iberian memories and histories: Race, ethnicity and gender in Portugal and Spain 1. Shifting representations, ambiguous bodies: African colonial subjects in nineteenth-century Spain 2. African women in Iberia. The Fernandino elite in Barcelona 3. African women's trajectories and the Casa dos Estudantes do Império 4. Black extras and actors in Francoist cinema 5. Batida and the politics of sonic agency in Afro-Lisboa 6. Leandro Mbomio, the "Black Picasso": Spanish state propaganda, Blackness, and neocolonialism in Equatorial Guinea 7. Racial rhetoric in black and white: situational whiteness in Francoist Spanish Guinea through Misión blanca 8. Precarious lives, invisible deaths. A history of community funeral management among Moroccans in Catalonia 9. Induced vulnerability: the consequences of racialization for African women in an emergency shelter in Catalonia (Spain)

About the author

Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré is Senior Researcher at the IMF-CSIC. Since 1999, she has participated in 21 research programmes, 8 directed by her. She is the author and/or co-editor of 18 books (Bellaterra, Peter Lang, Lit Verlag, Brill) and 94 book chapters and articles. Her last R+D Projects are Afro-Iberia and Black Spain.

Summary

This book sketches out an innovative Afro-Iberian mosaic that puts forgotten memories and histories into circulation, constructing an Afro-Iberian past that is critical of the cultural racialization of Spaniards and Portuguese. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Yolanda Aixela-Cabre
• Assisted by: Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032949963
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3294996-3
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Portugal, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Spain, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General